Notes: I’m really not sure when I wrote this poem. I have notes and different versions in several notebooks from between 1988 & 2000. I was reading a lot of love poems during this period and had a recurring love affair with Shakespeare’s Sonnets … And, NO, I am not suggesting any comparison to Shakespeare. I was also inexplicably attracted to the sentimentalist poet, Rod McKuen at the time, and his words may have had more influence on this poem. Either way, it has several versions and this one is my favourite.

I’m not sure it’s about any one person, and I probably was carelessly using it to woo the occasional girl. Hey, don’t judge me, that was long before I met my wife! AND No, I didn’t use it on her. I actually forgot about it and only recently found it for this feature on my creative writings.

It’s a beautifully idealized sentiment on love itself. I’m obviously not alone in enjoying it, as a version of this one won me a poetry prize and was published in “An Ever growing Wonder” and is currently housed in a collection of poems at The International Library of Poetry.

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